Tending the Spiritual in Psychedelic Care | Harvard Divinity School
at Harvard Divinity School
Cambridge, MA
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The Tending the Spiritual workshops provide attendees with a broad overview of approaches to spiritually responsive care tailored to psychedelic settings. The upcoming December workshop will focus on community psychedelic settings. Organized and hosted by the Center for the Study of World Religions, these workshops are a collaborative effort with Roman Palitsky, MDiv, PhD and Caroline Peacock, LCSW, DMin, both of whom are affiliated with Emory University. Roman and Caroline will lead the workshop along with guest lecturers.
Confirmed Guest Lecturers for December:
Belinda Eriacho: Wisdom carrier, healer, and founder of Kaalogii LLC; Board member and co-founder of the Church of the Eagle and the Condor
Daan Keiman: Co-founder of the Communitas Collective Foundation; Buddhist and Psychedelic Chaplain
Jay Michaelson: Field Scholar at the Emory Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality; visiting researcher at Harvard Law School
Jeffrey Breau: Program Lead for the CSWR’s Psychedelics and Spirituality initiative
December Workshop Dates: December 5, 2025 (8 am) – December 7, 2025 (2 pm). There will be ~4 hours of pre-work (reading and asynchronous webinars) required before the workshop.
Topics Covered (subject to change):
- Spiritual, Existential, Religious, Theological (SERT) overview in psychedelic care
- Highlights from Novel Spiritual Psychedelic Communities
- Legal landscape of religiously based psychedelic practice in the US
- Chaplaincy skills in group settings
- Spiritual care in communal and plant medicine work: trauma-informed and decolonial approaches
- Community ownership and co-design to support spiritually responsive plant medicine work in the community
- SERT elements in retreat settings
- Non-imposition of spiritual frameworks in retreat settings
Note: Registration for this workshop is now sold out.
